| Description | We have 160 acres tucked up against thousands of acres of national forest in the front range of the Colorado Rockies. The land is off the grid, with the nearest utility lines four miles away. The land is an hour's drive from Boulder. Anyone who wants to have winter time access needs a 4X4 vehicle. The four mile one lane dirt road is privately maintained and we're in charge of any snowplowing that happens.
We are offering a place for community in the 'good neighbor' sense of the word. This is not an attempt to create a commune. Each of our family groups has independent finances and a private family life. However, we work together on projects for mutual benefit. We recognize the reality of today's world and understand that there will be a complete paradigm shift along with the polar shift. Today we need to dwell in the world as it is. Tomorrow, we will learn together how to become a new culture. Someday, we will become a tribe. We will learn how to be each other's cradle to grave security as described in “Ishmael,” by Daniel Quinn. The transition will take time and patience and every community will make that transition differently. Our hope is to become a strongly knit, loving and supportive group of people who will become family.
Although we can definitely point to areas of the world and say that they are unsafe places to be, the simple truth is that we cannot point to any place in the world and say, “this place is safe.” Nevertheless, our land is in an area that seems likely to continue to exist following earth changes. In fact, it is likely to be close to ocean front property, according to both Lori Toye and Gordon Michael Scallion's earth changes maps. Right now, it is at 8000 ft. elevation. It is sitting on the divide between two canyons, nestled into a shallow valley, with relatively low hills on two sides, but not at the base of tall mountains. We have our own private aquifer under the land and a two acre lake, an open meadow, aspen, pine, spruce and fir trees, a gazillion flowers, and views of the high peaks. We have 160 acres at the end of the road, bordered on two sides by thousands of acres of national forest.
The land is owned by a family trust. There are three different financial possibilities for being here. The first is the potential to lease an acre from the trust. This lease costs $2000 a year and there are four available. The first year, the lessee cannot build on the site but can put up some form of portable housing, such as a yurt, tipi, canvas geodesic dome or camping trailer. After a year has passed and everyone is still happy with each other, a small structure can be built.The two other options are arrangements made with my husband and me. We have three acres that are permanently leased from the trust. We have the option of inviting people to put up portable housing within those acres. This would be a yurt, tipi, camping trailer, portable dome, or other similar housing. We are willing to either rent a spot or exchange the space for help. To be completely honest about this, we need help a great deal more than we need money. I am 61 and my husband is 66. Getting firewood is becoming more difficult each year. The place needs to be cleaned up. I desperately need help with my goats. That's the kind of help I'm thinking about.
Besides a place to put a dwelling, we also have 9000sf of space designed for a co-op garden. It has a soaker hose system in place, but is not yet developed into a producing garden. The land is unbelievably nutrient rich. We dug out our lake one year and spread out the dirt in that meadow, so the soil is rich in nutrients with a good soil texture. Our intention is to use intensive and square foot gardening techniques to achieve the highest possible yield from the space allowed.
Our solar powered well gives us wonderful tasting and healthy water. All residents on the mountain get water from that well and haul it back to their homes.There are very few hunters in this area of the mountains because access to the national forest goes through private property for the most part. We can walk out our back doors into national forest. Hunting is a distinct possibility and highly encouraged as we transition into the new culture. Being a vegetarian does not make sense in the Colorado Rockies. Perhaps some day we will be in a tropical climate, but at the moment we have a lot of winter here. Hunting for meat, raising livestock, gardening, and gathering is all part of the process of getting food. My basic philosophy about my goats is that we cannot eat the forest surrounding us, but the goats can eat the forest and we can get food from the goats – milk, cheese, butter, and meat.
We believe strongly that primitive living skills will be critical in order to build a new culture. Pottery, blacksmithing, weaving, spinning, making plant medicines, tool-making from bones and stone – these skills are all part of the transition into a new world. Each of us are coming into this community with different levels of skill and interest. We hope that we can each gravitate toward an area of interest in the primitive living disciplines and become skilled enough to teach the children.Children are critical to the continuation of a culture and the dominant characteristic of our community is that this place is a refuge for children. We believe this so strongly that we see the likelihood of going out from the community as the collapse happens to rescue children who have been left to fend for themselves. Each family unit will likely take in orphan children after the collapse.
Another characteristic of a healthy community will be diversity among the people. A healthy community will have all ages from babies to elders. Diversity in race will help ensure healthy future generations. Diversity in skills and knowledge will help ensure survival. About the only people that I would rather not have around are fundamentalist anything. I define fundamentalists as people who believe that they're the only ones who are right and everyone else must be convinced to join them in their rightness. Also along the lines of "rather not haves," would be people who believe that the best defense is offense. Yes, it is definitely possible that we might be forced to defend our community someday, but our philosophy veers toward fading into the wood work rather than standing in defiance. No matter how many guns, dogs, and people we gather to protect a "stash," there is bound to be someone coming along with more guns, dogs, and people to take it away. Far better that we be uninteresting and not worth bothering with.
Besides earth changes expected in 2012, there are other factors impacting our world. Resources are running out: oil, water, minerals, land, and food. The world economy is in the process of collapse. Wars are escalating. Political powers are involved with “last man standing” scenarios playing out as the world reels from the peak in oil production. The dominant culture that started in the fertile crescent thousands of years ago and has nearly succeeded in destroying all the indigenous cultures of the world, has covered the planet in an abusive, violent, and hierarchical manner with the belief that there is only “one right way.” We believe there are many “right ways,” and wish above all to express tolerance for the ways of other people that differ from our own.
We are only seeking a few families to expand our community. The mountains do not encourage large groups and we do not want to overwhelm the resources of this land. Those with children are especially welcome. If you would like to inquire further, we welcome conversation. You may write through this list, join a discussion in this group, or write to us at: twowings -at -gmail.com If you write to our email address, please include a telephone number so that we can talk directly. |
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